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Comcast subscribers unable to email Russia
News Comcast's high-speed Internet subscribers trying to email Russian addresses found themselves incommunicado for four days after the Internet service provider's spam filter went awry. Comcast, which has seen ISP giant America Online block email from...
[March 3, 2004, 8:20]
Comcast lends might to Rhapsody
News In one of the largest promotions of digital music subscription plans to date, cable Internet giant Comcast has agreed to distribute and market RealNetworks' Rhapsody music service. Comcast executive vice president Dave Watson said the company...
[November 10, 2003, 10:30]
Comcast subscribers unable to email Russia
Talkback Comcast is now blaming Russia. Would appreciate update since comcast website is unresponsive. Today is March 12, 2004 and I still cannot email my friend in Russia.
[March 12, 2004, 18:37]
Comcast sends out less spam
News Cable giant Comcast on Thursday said the volume of spam originating from its network has dropped 35 percent since it blocked an email loophole weeks ago. The new data comes after Comcast, the nation's largest broadband service, earlier this month...
[June 30, 2004, 9:25]
MS/Comcast deal fires PC/TV fusion
News At least that's the hope of Comcast President Brian Roberts. Gates, when questioned about Comcast's ownership of the QVC shopping channel, said it was an "interesting example of content that can have a new form in the interactive world.
[June 10, 1997, 8:57]
Sober worm clogs Hotmail connections
News The pesky Sober worm is to blame for disrupting email traffic between Comcast account holders and users of Microsoft-based email, Redmond said on Friday. Richardson also indicated that ISPs besides Comcast may be having problems directing email to...
[December 5, 2005, 8:00]
Google protects its search results
News This month, about 100 Comcast subscribers were temporarily shut out of Google when the search company charged the high-speed Internet access provider with hosting some accounts that had abused its terms of service by performing "automated queries.
[April 16, 2002, 14:47]
The Day Ahead: AT&T grabs Excite@Home, but questions still linger
News The distribution pacts with AT&T, Cox and Comcast ensure Excite@Home won't be disappearing when the cable trio opens up to other Internet service providers. Although analysts said AT&T may get some leverage on America Online with the Excite@Home...
[March 30, 2000, 13:50]
NTL appoints new CEO
News Stephen Burch, from US cable company Comcast, will become the new president and CEO of NTL starting on 16 January. NTL is hoping to draw on Burch's experience at Comcast - working on the AT&T Broadband acquisition - to help with NTL's integration...
[December 16, 2005, 12:20]
Alliance promotes networked digital home
News Founding members include networking giant Cisco Systems, cable provider Comcast, satellite provider EchoStar Communications, chipmaker Entropic Communications, retailer RadioShack and consumer electronics makers Panasonic, Motorola and Toshiba.
[January 6, 2004, 12:05]
Spam blocking traps legitimate email
News That means Road Runner will block emails originating from people who have their own email servers on top of an outside Internet service such as those offered by Verizon Communications, SBC Communications or Comcast.
[August 22, 2003, 9:05]
Broadband game just beginning
News That much is clear from the convoluted deal, which saw AT&T trump Comcast Corp.s bid for Media One, only to have Microsoft Corp.and America Online Inc.hint that they might step in as white knights. Thursday's deal should please most of these...
[May 7, 1999, 8:01]
Powerline broadband gets financial boost
News The group includes representatives from the sponsor companies, as well as Comcast, EarthLink, RadioShack, Sharp and Sony. Previous investors, including Comcast Interactive Capital, Duchossois, Fidelity Ventures and Philips Venture Capital Fund...
[August 25, 2005, 16:20]
Broadband booms in US
News On Thursday, industry bellwether Comcast, the nation's largest cable network, said it added 472,000 new broadband subscribers for the quarter ended 30 September, a 39 percent increase from the same period last year.
[October 31, 2003, 14:15]
'Personal TV' gets major endorsement in US
News The investors in TiVo's vision include TV networks CBS and Walt Disney (the owner of ABC) as well as cable companies Comcast Corp. For Comcast, at least, the investment is just that. There was an opportunity to invest in TiVo and we took it," said...
[July 28, 1999, 10:45]
DSL makes surprise gain in broadband battle
News No one can say until other cable giants such as Comcast and Cox, and the remaining Baby Bells such as Verizon report their results. Cox Communications will report on 30 July, and Comcast, the nation's largest cable modem provider, will report on 31...
[July 28, 2003, 16:43]
Broadband growth fails to measure up
News Meanwhile, on the other side of the broadband fence, Comcast maintained its sizable lead against its rivals. Cable companies claimed that their results, which analysts said came below expectations -- with the exception of Comcast -- were the result...
[August 4, 2003, 12:20]
Broadband's swept-up features fail to fire
News So far, cable companies such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications are driving household adoption of broadband. Only AOL has struck a deal with cable companies Comcast and its cousin Time Warner Cable.
[June 24, 2003, 9:08]
Is VoIP ready for prime time?
News But executives from Comcast and Cox now say they do not expect VoIP to pick up dramatically until 2004, if at all. According to white papers and a series of recent interviews, Cox and Comcast continue to have significant reservations about VoIP...
[July 15, 2003, 11:43]
US regulator proposes new net neutrality rules
News Still, the slap on the wrist coupled with public outcry was enough to get Comcast to change its practices. The discovery that the nation's largest cable operator, Comcast, had slowed down certain kinds of peer-to-peer traffic on its network fanned...
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